ambivalent

ambivalent (about/towards somebody/something)having or showing both good and bad feelings about somebody/somethingShe seems to feel ambivalent about her new job.He has an ambivalent attitude towards her.Word Originearly 20th cent.: from ambivalence (from GermanAmbivalenz), on the pattern of equivalent.Extra examplesIn his latest film, he plays a sexually ambivalent bartender.The party’s position on nuclear weapons is deeply ambivalent.She feels ambivalent about her new job.She is deeply ambivalent about her feelings for him.